Mac sales in the enterprise during Apple's last fiscal quarter grew a whopping 66 percent, significantly outpacing the rest of the PC market, which grew just 4.5 percent in the enterprise. The data from Apple's previous fiscal quarter was highlighted on Friday by analyst Charlie Wolf with Needham & Company. He said though he originally viewed success in the enterprise as a "one-quarter blip," it now appears to be a "durable platform" for Apple.

Not for us it doesn't ... Microsoft quoted us £100. It ultimately depends on your licensing vendor.

Even so ... it is still cheaper than the price of an iMac. $1000 is approximately £700

Average core 2 workstation costs about £400 with a Windows License ... so even if we take into account the full price with no discount (and they are easy to get), it still comes up to the same price as the iMac.

And you don't even need a dev copy of SQl Server because they include Express as part of the VS2010 install.

Also where are you going to deploy this code to? Most people have Windows Workstations, if you develop on XCode everyone would have to have a Mac and that would be expensive.

Not for us it doesn't ... Microsoft quoted us £100. It ultimately depends on your licensing vendor.

Even so ... it is still cheaper than the price of an iMac. $1000 is approximately £700

Average core 2 workstation costs about £400 with a Windows License ... so even if we take into account the full price with no discount (and they are easy to get), it still comes up to the same price as the iMac.

And you don't even need a dev copy of SQl Server because they include Express as part of the VS2010 install.

Also where are you going to deploy this code to? Most people have Windows Workstations, if you develop on XCode everyone would have to have a Mac and that would be expensive.

You get stuck with your current system and a license and the other guy gets a new iMac UNIX system with his dev tools in exchange for the license. I'll take the hardware.